Congratulations Dima! This is wonderful news for the future of Devuan!

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dima Krasner <dima@???> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play nicely with
> LoginKit instead of logind.
>
> http://i.imgur.com/1PTI6L5.png
>
> LoginKit (https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/loginkit) is an
> attempt to develop a shim that provides the parts of logind and libsystemd
> required to get some packages with a hard dependency on systemd to work
> without it.
>
> Some packages (especially stuff like LightDM and GDM) depends on logind,
> but don't need the rest of systemd. We (and other distros, probably)
> definitely want major DEs and DMs to work without it, to preserve the
> user's freedom of choice. Therefore, LoginKit is not a complete systemd
> replacement, just a replacement for logind and some parts of libsystemd
> (libsystemd-login, libsystemd-journal and libsystemd-daemon).
>
> It's not perfect and the only distro it works on (since ~20 mins ago :D)
> is Devuan (surprise, isn't it?). It allows us to kick logind (the last
> piece of systemd) from the stock ISO. So far, I don't see any impact on
> user experience, which is good.
>
> There's a big pile of issues with LoginKit, with the most important being
> fixing all issues found during code review conducted by the folks at
> #devuan. It will take some time until this code matures, but knowing it
> works on the pre-alpha is pretty comforting :)
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Dima
>
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> Dima Krasner, dimakrasner.com
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